Top 70 Survival Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You’ve got to find a way to survive because they win when your soul dies.”

— Tupac Shakur

52. “Without victory there is no survival!”

— Winston Churchill

53. “You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!”

— Viktor E. Frankl

54. “From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, “I survived.””

— Craig Scott

55. “I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.”

— Reinhold Messner

56. “Moving forward is the only way to survive.”

— Tahereh Mafi

57. “Never surrender, it’s all about the faith you got: don’t ever stop, just push it ’till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall.”

— Tupac Shakur

58. “Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

— William Ernest Henley

59. “Flexibility is a requirement for survival.”

— Roger Von Oech

60. “Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

— Ray Bradbury

61. “We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.”

— Lance Armstrong

62. “I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.”

— Steve Maraboli

63. “Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.”

— John Wayne

64. “Do not fear, for I am with you – Isaiah 41:10.”

— Anonymous

65. “Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

— Carl Sagan

66. “There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.”

— Muhammad Ali

67. “No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.”

— Joel Osteen

68. “As long as there’s life, there’s hope.”

— Tamora Pierce

69. “Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

70. “In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

— Vincent van Gogh

71. “Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.”

— Demi Lovato

72. “No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.”

— Drew Pinsky

73. “Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.”

— Sarah Kay

74. “Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

— Paul Harvey

75. “What doesn’t kill me, can only make me stronger.”

— Kanye West

76. “No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.”

— Joel Osteen

77. “If you fall stand tall and come back for more.”

— Tupac Shakur

78. “I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling